X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FB619FB1F6 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:42:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 36983-10 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:42:38 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from noel.decibel.org (noel.decibel.org [67.100.216.10]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469879FB1F0 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 18:42:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: by noel.decibel.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 322D956437; Tue, 2 May 2006 16:42:37 -0500 (CDT) Received: (hashcash-sendmail, from uid 1001); Tue, 2 May 2006 16:42:36 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 16:42:36 -0500 From: "Jim C. Nasby" To: Vivek Khera , Pgsql performance Subject: Re: postgresql transaction id monitoring with nagios Message-ID: <20060502214236.GG97354@pervasive.com> References: <6d8daee30605021126o7b44e255q552dcdc676c565bf@mail.gmail.com> <628A837A-9718-46BB-85D7-8A63BBB1CA32@khera.org> <20060502190340.GG15291@surnet.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060502190340.GG15291@surnet.cl> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 X-Distributed: Join the Effort! http://www.distributed.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060502:vivek@khera.org::EYA2dF31GEgc9ZmO:004+Q8 X-Hashcash: 1:20:060502:pgsql-performance@postgresql.org::pB62bS+Hzu/7BaP/:00000 00000000000000000000000009sp X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200605/50 X-Sequence-Number: 18837 On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:03:40PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > That's right, because a database's age is only decremented in > database-wide vacuums. (Wow, who wouldn't want a person-wide vacuum if > it did the same thing ...) The heck with age, I'd take a person-wide vacuum if it just got rid of all my 'dead rows'... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461